If you’re looking for some farm fresh food at EPCOT Park, then Breakfast at Disney’s Garden Grill, maybe just what you need. With classic breakfast options, and even specialty drinks for the grown ups, this Disney Character breakfast offers a budget-friendly meal you don’t typically find at Disney World. Here’s everything to know about the Garden Grill Disney Breakfast with characters at EPCOT.
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Garden Grill Disney Restaurant Details
Located in EPCOT’s The Land building, the Garden Grill Disney restaurant serves up an all-you-care-to-enjoy family style meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Plus, Garden Grill often uses ingredients from the Disney greenhouses below the restaurant, so you know you’re getting the freshest foods! And if you take a ride on Living with the Land, below the restaurant, you can see the plants, vegetables and fruits, that may just find their way onto your plate.
- Cost: $49 per adult, $33 per child ( Ages 3-9)
- Hours:
- Breakfast – 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM
- Menu: Garden Grill Breakfast Menu
- Meal: All You Care to Enjoy, Family-Style
- Reservations: Highly Recommended
What are the Garden Grill Breakfast Hours?
Garden Grill Breakfast Hours are 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM. While this is a short meal window, know that the menu does change for lunch, so if you’re hoping to get the Chip and Dale Harvest Feast for Breakfast, be sure to plan an early day.
Do you need Reservations for Garden Grill EPCOT?
Yes, Disney Dining Reservations for Garden Grill Breakfast are highly recommended. While reservations at Garden Grill EPCOT are not hard to get, families often book this last minute, so if you find an open reservation grab it.
Should You Choose Garden Grill for Breakfast or Lunch?
If you’re choosing between breakfast or lunch at Garden Grill Epcot, we’d recommend breakfast, simply because it’s cheaper! And because the foods on the menu at breakfast are fantastic! Lunch and Dinner at Garden Grill are the same, including meats, vegetables, potatoes and macaroni and cheese. The menu is similar to that you would find at Liberty Tree Tavern in Magic Kingdom. At Garden Grill, however, the lunch and dinner is about $15 more per person.
Is Disney Garden Grill All You Can Eat?
Yes, the EPCOT Garden Grill Restaurant is all you care to enjoy. This means, that the main foods are piled together in a large pan, family style, and you can simply request more of any of the menu items if you like as you work through them. Don’t be shy about this. The initial offering sometimes isn’t enough, and everyone has favorite foods that you will always need more of. At breakfast we almost always need more eggs, just like at lunch and dinner, when we almost always get more mac and cheese.
Garden Grill Disney Character Breakfast
Sometimes known as the Chip and Dale Restaurant, because this is the only place you meet this dynamic duo, the Garden Grill Disney Restaurant is located on the second floor of EPCOT’s The Land building. In typical character dining fashion, you can expect Disney characters to visit you at your table as you eat. So get ready with your camera, phone, and autograph book.
What Disney Characters are at Garden Grill?
The Garden Grill Disney characters are Mickey in his farmer outfit, Chip and Dale, and Pluto too. Truthfully, this is the most fun we’ve had with characters at a restaurant. They give you plenty of time for chatting, and visits here. These are the same characters at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Garden Grill Disney Atmosphere
The Garden Grill Disney Restaurant is situated on a slow moving two tiered base, that allows you a variety of views as you eat. Booth seating on both tiers make this a good restaurant for families. Like any in-park restaurant, the atmosphere is a bit rushed, and bustling, but expected.
Your meal is served in courses. With the breakfast pastry, and fruit coming first, then the main dish and sides settled on the table for you to work through at your leisure.
Does the Garden Grill Restaurant rotate?
Yes! The Garden Grill Restaurant rotates, very very slowly, allowing you different views throughout the meal. While the movement is not noticeable while you’re dining, if you look up, you’ll notice different scenery. With views into the treetops of the ride, and the hot air balloons that hang in The Land building, parts of the “scenery” are just walls. However, since your real experience at this restaurant is all about the characters, you may not notice the views anyway!
Garden Grill Disney Menu – Breakfast
The Chip and Dale Harvest Feast Menu includes Breakfast pastry, Mickey Shaped Waffles, Backyard Grilled Steak, Smoked Bacon, Scrambled Eggs, Skillet Potatoes, and Fresh Fruit. You can also grab fountain beverages, coffee and tea. And there are both plant based and allergy friendly menu options here too.
- Skillet Potatoes
- Breakfast Pastry
- Fresh Fruit
- Mickey Shaped Waffles with Maple Syrup
- Backyard Grilled Steak with Farmer’s Ranchero Sauce
- Smoked Bacon
- Scrambled Free-range Eggs
Everything is all you care to enjoy, so you’re free to ask for as much as you’d like of any of the menu items. Garden Grill also serves alcoholic beverages at breakfast for an extra charge. You can grab a mimosa, bloody Mary or citrus freeze to add a little more fun to your breakfast. You can also get a Specialty Character Drink with lemonade, and flavors of cotton candy in a souvenir character cup for an extra cost.
Alcoholic Drinks can be added to your breakfast for an extra cost. This is standard and similar to those offerings at the Chef Mickey Breakfast.
- Mimosa: Nino Franco Rustico Prosecco with Minute Maid® Orange Juice or Passion Fruit-Orange-Guava Juice
- Bloody Mary: Tito’s Handmade Vodka with Bloody Mary Mix
- Citrus Freeze: Florida Cane Orlando Orange Vodka, Bols Peach Schnapps Liqueur, and Mango Purée
Garden Grill Disney Cost
One of our favorite things about planning Disney character meals for breakfast, is that it’s always cheaper than dinner. Comparable to the Crystal Palace Breakfast, the Breakfast at Garden Grill costs $49 per adult and $33 per child. Both lunch and dinner here is $62 and $42, which is in line with most Disney Character Dining at Disney World.
Garden Grill Disney Restaurant Review
In terms of character restaurants at Disney World, the Garden Grill Breakfast offers a unique experience you can’t get anywhere else. Seeing Mickey Mouse in his farmer outfit with Pluto, Chip and Dale, you can count on a fun breakfast with photo ops. A similar Disney character restaurant offering an all you care to enjoy, family style breakfast is the Best Friends Breakfast at ‘Ohana.
While breakfast at Disney World is sometimes rushed in the hurry to do all the things in the parks, the Garden Grill Character Breakfast offers you a chance for a meal at a sit-down restaurant at EPCOT. Why not take the time to meet some characters, have some waffles and ease into the day? With classic breakfast foods, a delicious breakfast bread and healthy ingredients, you’ll feel great about taking the time to eat at Garden Grill, before heading into the park. Hopefully this post has given you an idea of what to expect on your next visit to Garden Grill.
Rochelle Mariah is a writer, designer and photographer. Determined to make Planning a DIY Disney Vacation easier she makes lots of lists and drinks lots of coffee. When not designing apparel at Polka Dot Pixie Shop, she’s watching old movies and planning the holidays. She has been traveling to Disney destinations since 2010.
